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              ' - " ' " - " ' ' ' . i " " ' .. - t ii ., I " - : : : : ..imvi, . .. mmd i n ... I i mi ml I i.ji'iui. I I I III I I JI . 1 1 I IH BH . X. " ' 11 L-ji-iai..J.'.".T..-;"""'-J'- --- - VOLUME MOUNT VERNON, OHIO: AUGUST 5, 1865. NUMBER 16. iK gtmqtratic' IJairctr'; ., - S rCSLISBZD tTIl (UDUAT HOUOI BT - V-'V L. HiEPES; - X-;? CtlQee ia WeMMtwafrd. Block; Sd Story. $2.50 per annum, payable strictly In advanca r $3.00, if . payment jbe delayed. ,SKThesa ..-V U. Si 7-30 LOAN. - r $230,000,000. By authority of the Secretary of the Treasury, the nndarsigned, the General Subscription Agent for the ale of rTJaited States Securities, offer to the public tW third aeries of Treasury Notes, being seven and - three-tenths per cent, interest per annum, known as 7-30 Tj 0-A3ST. - These notes are issued under date of July IS, 1865, - sad are payable three years from that date in currency, or are convertible at the option of the holder - into . ::-r fj, 5-20 Six per cent. 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The delivery of the notes of this third scries of the Seven-thirties Will commence on the 1st of June, and rill be made promptly and continuously after that Jete. v ' ' ;. ' The alight change made in the condition of this THIRD SERIES affecls only the matter of interest. The payment in gold, if made, will be equivalent to the currency interest of the higher rate. : The retora to specie payments, in the event of which only, will the option to pay interest in Gold be availed of, would so reduce and equalize prices that rmrshXii made with eia; per cent, i ffold would be fully eqoal to thee Made with tcrea and three-tenth per eeat. in currency. This is . THE ONLY LOAN IN MARKET fiiui !J'tfce Government, and Its superior ad- vantages wake It the : Great Popular Loan of the People. Leas than $20,000,000 of the Loan authorised by Congress are now on the market. This amount, at the rate at which it is being absorbed, will all be subscribed for within sixty days, when the notes will undoubtedly command a premium, as has uniformly been the case on closing the subscriptions to other -Loans. ... In order that citizens of every town and section of the country may be afforded facilities for taking the Loan, the National Banks, State Banks, and Private Bankers throughout the country have generally greed to receive subscriptions at par. Subscribers will select their own agents, in whom they have confidence, and who only are to be responsible for the delivery of the notes for which they receive orders; JAY COOKE, Suierxjition.Affcnt, fhila. aj Subscriptions received by the Firit National JSanM Mount Vernon, ana JLnox Vounty JVationa t33nk of Mount Vernon. J une 3 A Card. . . 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States and Caaadas, at $r0r botta, or six bottles Yor 4.00.V, , 'C.'Q. CLABK A CO, - . . - " ' . TMonntt,- l-I'eb.iWy. , - - 'New Haven, Ct. STOBEv: biALia is BOOTS; & SHOES, HOSIERY AN D NOTIONS, ; ': Main Slrst, et door, toj.ie W. George, Jft, Vernon. fAXOSPLSTB ASSOBTMBS I OF laAlw'lleaUinasevwicl CUldren'i JUwaya Aa4.;Alae,:AGRCJLT 7RISTY OF yeekliea. t fend a General AMOrtmaat tf lie mt far fh TT V rVTTTJ a IT SWT'? am i3A e. j. sTifrr 2IL Ycrnoa. If area 11. IMA. CEe glm0mUic fanner - From the Mttaourl Bepubliean. Emerson Etheridge to the Fresident WHY HE WAS ARRESTED I Caustic RerieV of Andj Johwoa Parsoa Brownlow. ' and Colttsibcs, Ky., Jaly 13, 18G5. To His Excellency ' Andrew Johtuon, President of'Ike United Stalest The Hon. Horace Greeley the wisest and anions the beet of your present fnenda once addressed your distinguished predecessor thro' the columns or bi newspaper, tie wrote in bfthalf of the "colored race I am embolden ed by his example to invoke your attention to I tie u n tort un ate wnues. oesiaee, 1 Know now yon are surronnded by political and religious Eitriots who daily approach the throne of xecutire erace to assure y ou of their love o( eountrr and detestation of place, and to offer nn their fervent Drayers for the restoration of your health, and the prolongation of your in valuable life, rernape some one 01 wiese may see this commnnication and present it to the attention of your Excellency. In this press upon precious time, 1 make no estimate 01 me intervals vou so cheerfully devote to the crowds of contrabands who constitute so much of the elite of the Capital. v I know the magnanimous nature 01 your Excellency, and I tear the sad announcement I have to make will prove injurious if not fatal, to the tender sensibilities of your noble and generous heart. I was arrested at my home in Dresden, Tennessee, on rnaay iaes (hangman's day), by a detachment or armea soldiers, whose deportment and appearance would do honor to any service. Iney are known in the Army regulations as "colored troops," but, to their shame be epoKen, your old friends still persist in calling them nieeers. Tuey were commanded ana ai- Tected by four or five men who arr9tel me as Mr. Adder-rig, from which, l inter, tuey ciaim a lager beer nationality. I deem it my duty to report that your old friends of the secesh persuasion 6till persist in the treasonable practice of calling the persossl of such expeditions, "d -d Dutch and niggers." You will doubtless be relieved to hear that the ex pedition was a success- Though I bad timely warning of the approaching raid, I preferred surrender, to hopeles resistance ; and the command reached this city without material loss, threatingme, since'm y arrest,with courtesy and kindness, for which I am grateful. I have been here five days ; and, though I have not yet been able to obtain the names of my accusers, or a copy of the charges, if any. upon which I was arrested, I have obtained from other sources information upon which I rely of the causes and motives of my arrest. I am charged with using treasonable language against the Government of. the United States, and the Government of Tennessee ; and with speaking disrespectfully ofyour Excellency, and of the Right Boverened William G. Brown-low, who, unmindful that tie Constitution of Tennessee excludes all ministers from civil office, is now claiming to have successfully seized- the office of Governor of said State. Further awd trulyTlhat I have given a profes-, sional opinion, declaring that the staves in Tennessee have not been made free by law As I will, no doubt, be held a prisoner until after the pending election farce in Tennessee is over, I propose to indulge a portion 01 my leisure in giving you a concise statement bf some things I did say,: and the circumstances under which I have provoked the military displeasure of that Grand Army, of which you are the Commander-in-Chiefs . A public meeting of the citizens of Weakley county, Tennessee, was called at Dresden on Saturday, the let of July last, to consider the best course to be adopted for the interests of all. That meeting was very large, and was addressed by William P. Caldwell and myself. The object of the meeting, the character of Mr. Caldwell's speech, and much of my own, may be easily inferred from the following resolutions, which were unanimously adopted at the close of the meeting all but the last having been been reported from the Committee on Resolutions. I Here follows the uesolutions, which, as they are not essential to an understanding of the subject are omitted. I On the following Jttonday, J ulyTdd, a very large meeting was held at Trenton, Gibson county, which I addressed for three hours. Isaac Sampson, one of Brownlow's newly ap pointed Circuit Judges, having, as he said, full civil and criminal jurisdiction to arreet and try all offenders, was-present; He had one of Brownlow's Sheriffs, and several of his Justices of the Peace present, and in their presence he addressed the multitude from the same stand I had occupied ; yet he did not much as hint at ray arrest : he only threaten- Led the people with an invasion of federal troops (meaning neeroes,) to deter them from voting for me. At the close of the meeting, resolutions precisely similar to those passed at Dresden were unanimously adopted. I was unanimously nominated for Congress, and the pre tended Senator and Representative were unan imously requested to resign. I was to have addressed a similar meeting at Paris, II enry county, oo? Saturday last, and would have done so, had I not been arrested. As the offensive wards are alleged to have been spoken in my Dresden speech (they were substantially repeated at Trenton,) I will give you, accurately and eonctsrr as 1 can, what I saia or you, at uresjen. indeed, l win give vou the precise 'words of tnv exorditmi in which vow were first personally alluded to. Address ing myself to the audience I said : "You ltave wits eased the rise, culmination, and oyerthrow of a rebellion, in all respects, the most astonishing a tire; world's nistory ; astonishing because of the numbers 4 engaged, the resources it so suddenly improvised, and the duration and intensity of the conflict." itt was only less as1onis"hing than the numbers and xesources it encountered. , It baa ended as all rebellions must end, when opposed, by greatly superior resourcea and nambera. ;.tthe rebellion is over. - Its leaders are captives, exiles, or supplicants for pardon ; its armed adherents have saluted their flag for the last time, and its. friends ,liTdrjg oat ih Sonth have yielded the contest. Their; eubmissioD has been graceful, unanimous, and in all apparent good faith.' ot an armed Confederate is to be found within the limits of theState.--The federal Government professed to draw the sword only for the sofa purpose of enforcing its Constitutional authority whereyer it was opposed ; it ia this day supreme within the entire UmHs of the United States. If a ' opposition ia anywhere attempted; jior, indeed can any be organized. Why, thea, I ask, Aral we threatened with despotism as inexcosabls as rebellion t - .Why are free elections denied to the TJoiontnea, and qoalified; tolers'of th State ? iWby; have non-residents and loungers around Federal -camr, wunout your., kaowl 3 KAHemt aael a a A aWi . AAlia MA edge or consent, and a daSaaca of jonr pro jleata. aMd appaa -hero yerraittad fierp hsj high and responsible places of power, and to declare themselves your oppressors and masters and this, too, in contempt of that declaration of Rights, whose sacred principles are inviolable, and, by your Constitution, 'excepted out of the; general powers of Government'? Why are offensive rulers being set over the loyal people of the State by those who are jointly responsible for the war? Why are bands of armed negroes permitted to roam over the country, plundering and insulting the timid and defenceless ? And more than these, why are you and 1,-whose souls are. unstained by treason, compelled td drain this cup of shame at the hands of those who were the original instigators of the rebellion ?" I beg leave to assure your Excellency that in usingthe words "original instigators of the rebellion," 1 alluded to you ; further trat 1 spoke in no Pickwickian sense. And now that I may invoke your clemency, not for my self, hot for those who listened to my remarks, I frankly confess that I submitted certain proofs of the truth of my charges. I told the people that the first time I ever saw you, you were harranguing the multitude to prove me an Abolitionist ; that it was a somewhat "raw and gusty day,'' and that your vehemence in the open air caused you to contract a throat disease, from which, unfortunately for the country, you profess ; not to have recovered. I alluded to your early speeches in Congress in which you resorted to the bitterest personal abuse of John Uuincy Adams be cause of his religious, anti-slavery opinions; to your reverential confession that God had killed off Gen. Harrison because he was an Abolitionist. I also told the people that you had, in 1856, in the State of Tennessee, pro posed that every Southern man should "join in one fraternal hug" and plunge into rebel lion, if Fremont and Dayton were elected, in addition to this, I informed the audience that I heard you, in the Senate, in December, 1859, denounce Mr. Seward and the Republican party, as wholly responsible for the murderous raid of "this old man Brown," whom you then stigmatised "nothing more than a mur derer, arobber, a Ihref and traitor. I said also, that you not only supboHed Breckirin ridge, the candidate of the avowed disumonietsf but that after the election of Lincoln, after the meeting of Congress in December, 18G0, and only one day before the; assembling of the Convention which declared bouth Carolina out of the Union, you had, in the Senate of the United States, made a labored speechj em bracing a part of two days, in which you posi tively pledged yourself, in a contingency which has long since happened, to join these same rebels, "to perish in the last breach," to "burn every blade of grass," and to make your grave in "the last intrenchments" of rebel freedom. I told the people that I heard this speech, (during the delivery of which Jefferson Davis offered you a most unprovoked insult, the efc feet of which I will not now attempt to state) and that.'every word of it was designed to convince the people of Tennessee that they were an oppressed people and you their champion ; that their constitutional rights were in imminent danger, and that they owght "totoE-UAND additional securities;" thai you then and there submitted the . following written "basis," upon which you declared an unalterable pa rpoe "to light thegreaf talt le for our rights:" ' Resolved, That we deeply sVrotoalhize with our sister -Southern States, and freely admit that there is good cause for dissatisfaction and complaint on their part, on account of the re cent election of sectional candidates to the Presidency and Vice-Presidency of the United States ; yet we, as a portion of a people of a slave-holding community, are hofor seceding or breaking up the Union of these otates until every fair and honorable means, has been exhausted in trying to obtain, onjthe part of the non-slaveholding States, a compliance with the spirit and letter of the Constitution and all its guarantees ; and when this shall have been done, and the States now :n opev rebellion against the laws of the United States, in refusing to execute the Fugitive Slave La wt shall persist in their present unconstitutional course, and the Federal Government shall fail to execute the laws in good faith, it (the Government) will not have accomplished the great design of its creation, arid will therefore, in fact, be a practical dissolution, and all the States, as parties, be released- from the compact which formed the Union. In commenting on the feregoing "basis" I said it proved that you did then "deeply sympathise with our sister Southern States;'' that you particularly alluded to South Carolina whose treasonable representatives were then assembled, and who, one day after, inaugurated the rebellion ; that you did there freely admit good cause for dissatisfaction and complaint," because of the election of your illustrious predecessor and the Hon. Hannibal Hamlin who the Rev. Mr. Brownlow represented as a negro. I said, also, that you were then only a conditional Unionist ; that ou declared yourself, "not for seceding -or Wearing up the Union of these States "cntil every fair and honorable means had heen exhausted in trying to obtain on the part, of the. non-slaveholding States a compliance with the spirit and letter of lhe Constitution and all - its guarantees." . . ; ; ' t'; i " . And I farther stated had yori? at the aree time, had, assured your rebel friends, with whom you did so "deeply sympathize" ;that ."when this shaU taVe been, don e and the Slates now or opkk aiBaixiox'fmeaning.Vecinoot and Massaghsetts) "against the laws of .the UniteaStateav JL shall persTst In their presept unconstitutional, cpursf, 9 (the Government) will not have accomplished the great design of its creation, and will therefore, in fact, be practical idiasoluLtowtdttthe Union."- I repeat, I told the peopl UiM.his speech so made as aforesaid by jons assisted by Senator Latham "who was kind tmoaih- to read tor you, was designed I rebellion among votrr coastitaents certain paseagea from that speech to prove the above general atatement, I jrefereed i to tfcat part m which you said "there is no power top-ferred upon the Congress of the. United States, py- me vomjuiuwen, o coerce" .-ltaxe tTd j I Pour "demand-lordUiona! 1 Vermont waa, at that time, gm'lty of "nullifi-tafSon," of ."resistance to the ,Jaws of the United SUteaJ? wnich ycrti prOndnnced .Opxr ksbxuiok' ' I.cdmmented uponJyouY statement that the.conduct of Vermont had been Such that a56vernmenV ai At in .'SjadLf Nor'did J. omitto tell- the people that you the and here (l&h arrd ISA -of Paece ibeilSSOj had anbmitted an opinion In. regard to your general "complaint," II did not; . like, 3eecli-er, pronoance'yoii "drunk, nor ''did tt.' like J Wilkes, say yoa ,liad: been, poisoned.. . I per mitted yotr to apeak- ror ryourseir by .reading the following frotaou? speech : i i-'ch- - j 7;haVe cbmplainea t natf IBeiV inUnKoo J is to bem slavery in, so that? like the scorpion wkea aurroaudedV fircIf i did not"die from the intense tieae of ' the scorching Barnes; ' it would perisli from it own poisonoTia stiri Si w-You unhe? promisedyout .rei what Tennessee, sxiould Co, i( tew" tE'r&tM1 for ela very were refated . ion said.-"Ten nea see will be found standing as firm an! unyield- ing in her uxaKsa fcrr those gnarastcet as any otheir SUte'lt asserted, also, that yon had declared the elec tion of Lincoln .and tiamiin. rsectionar'. that you avowed your purpose to "rev dowic ' Ur. Lincoln and privb back, his ad va aces upon Southern institutions ;" that yon promised not to abandon your "North em Democratic friends aud leave all to Lincoln's cohorts ;" that you solem uly pledged yourself not to permit Sir. Lincoln to come with'his "cohorts, as we consider them, from theNorth, ' and carry off everything." All the". foregoing, and much more, I charged upon you and proved by your speech of 18th and 19th of December. I860. Continuing my address, I said that if you were a credible witness beg yon to believe I so regard you I could prove that every political supporter and admirer of your excellen cy, and every follower of the saintly Brownlow then and there present was a disunion ist. In doing tins, 1 read from a speech made by yon at Columbia, Tennessee, on the 2d of June 1862. - It was revised by yourself, and pablish- ed in your own organ, the Nashville Union Of June 9, 1862, then edited by your friend Mer cer, who is best Rnown as "quinine Mercer," because of Ins sympathy with the rebel sick, to whom, it is alleged, be kindly smuggled that invaluable medicine while he sojourned within the Federal lines. I read the following: : - :'' " 1 "Now I will prove very briefly that a seces sionist is ss great an -Abolitionist as Sumner. Both the secessionist ami msumeoaist are for, breaking up thin Union. I will state the ar gument in a syllogism, thus t An Abolitionist . : .. - . 1 . .- . . . ii a disunionist. a uisunionist is a secessionist. A secessionist is a disunionist. A dis unionist is an abolitionist. .Therefore, a se Cessiomst ia an abolitionist. . There is not a particle of difference between them." I repeat, L read the forgoing, after which I was so irreverent as to say, in regard to your syllogism, that I could find ahe silly but not the gism ; but you were .distinct anl positive in the allegation that "an Abolitionist . is a disunionist." AH this and much more" did I sav, may it please your excellency , lor me ijnany pious purposes nereinaiter enumeraieti-; the hearts and consciences 01 a tew of your old rebel friends," office-holders -and - Trade Agents, who desire to join yoii: in your late but earnest championship of the rights of the colored race. They have some pride of con sistency ; having always been rebels at heart, they dialike suddenly to 'become" Abolitionist s. fearing they may be required, in , following your illustrious example, to deal harshly with those who, front a false sense of shame, are still unwilling, by turning Abolition isis, to incur the rebel . reproach of a pota'ov. - They urge that they d:Blike to be called Judase's ; and yet they wish to' oe with you. and at rest.'. "Hence the struggle between their old party and rebel pride, and their love for you ; their dire necessities and love of casli. With all such I adopted this mode of reasoning Thar the popular judgment is often wrong and extraordinary or hereditary prejudices . rare'y right. For example, I would take to celebra ted cases, those or 1'ilate and Jtulae, that the Christian world affected, nav. felt great horror of their names and characters, that they were associated with the mustier of our Saviour, and, therefore, no on e'tuipoaed it possible to nna any ifiinsr iu lueir natures to extenuate th severe judgment oCnlankind ; wliereas, ia fact, Pilate was bitterly5 opposed (o'xkit Sa viour's persecutions and ignominious death. iiv.vov1 w iuuiiu anui ti .-, . while the mob (may Heaven protect your. Ex cellency from all mobs hurried him away to execution, without even the dignity ot a mili tary arrest ! that Judas, from all we had been able to ascertain in regard to his character, was a very unobtrusive, reticent man, better fitted for a trade agent or contractor than a Disciple; that, though-he "turiied his? back upon his triends, " nay, betrayed them, ha ' was neither the first cor the the last who had yield ed to temptation : that Au reward ; was hard money thirty huge pieces arid long before Chase had inflated the currency; or California had augmented the coin : that he was man of sensibility, that he renented. and so - suffer ed from remorse that he, burst bis. bowels .1 assured the secessiopists .And' office seekers however, that they need not wait tor quarantine before joining the army of Sumner and. John.Brown $ that yoa had done so, turn ed jour pack upon them- betrayed thei a that, although, the official health fettftetTn represent ed you in' i precarious condition. "I iiad yet seen no mention of any morUd distension of vour bowels, s Nor did fail to lemlnd the audience of the nulical ch an ge , in jouxe opinions of John Brown . and Mr.' Seward, "since Vou denounced thehe as -mnrdefer.-a, : robber, a thief, and a baits,'' and the other as his political tutor,; 1 pointed t$ ,the r remarkable ease and elegance with which, you now fratert nize with the original Browns; how. you how piously regarded bis gallows as bhly' less sa cred than the Cro8 of Cliristihow-heoignant- ly you smiled at hia : apothesis, : and how rM v in ely jpu could sing; . ;'.;.; rJ fJohn Brawn's body lies a mouldering in thoduat. doubtle'sato'theJ full hefght of1 the efein arj gutneat,'1 and many of your; old scesVfr lends' pronounced in jr jspeech trnly, elooueQtand con virtcini' Several are known t? Jia.ve declared noaiiivelv.4 rfor"dn and Brownlow.; while,' amoncr the office Aeekera, - trade . agents, aridH those whrfAavaloit fortaa liytithexwar.'i Ultra feemeq yo gwal join the grand Armj -of" junverj? bravely led by yourself; I luhd tb do so' eicept k few- origrnal TJi thsra feemed M he gW?rk loeUnatioaW iiHierta,xreeaom. so loUnd none jrelu'ctant igfnat Unioa men -who srilldeclate themselves' rarden CsnbiorteTsr f ,VfJaX Vfl'1' ip9Btonrdiary ftomnasaibn reouires me W. jsay. in their be- In die foregoing I can giye.jou.ooly Jiriel outline pr that portion ot myrtepeecli wbicli van n.viin M-' innv &u iuuidcii.' m. . m vna aa kind eWMiglit to hajr.ukt they read but few newspapers,vad by yoa Habotnow thaVtne hid'; Togr 'parchment U itaents. , I selected JhilrtMffmji tfirns siasU i i -' NowribV Jthis ulogittm,9 ponyonr liffc char- i acter and jmhli eerviccsTaad beoaassittw JJnion nie3j of flttX, poron .of he State" in which'I live have nominated me for Congress j I am held,; like Napoleon,' a prisoner; f, CoUunhoa,! JI.pw hislotwiU repeat iae!( I For be teneai earisetueat. travellers , waoi may visit this" ctassitf city "n eearcu .of Velics I will here state thai I am at -Ui?Xtiinibus iIote!,: room Nov VdirecUyionpoaite ifhatch-er'jitWhwMmt,)ftwserei Oiirteen Uiri'ed dogs, kandreds of unchained contrabands, and millions of mueHitoesnihilyiairgJe"' their1, rnusic:Wla!t' me to 'repceiih v i. iSAwWOrerword -t;J susrendll farther recital of t hose aZictiocs which iaai Bnra will greatly Aflectypor Excellency's com passionate heartl I am veryiiTihappyJjere.-! The nobIesf river ia the wbrU,,t lies' before me j its waves dance merrily and tl,'re-trained, Untleac.ht3 ladies ani. tr.wroed ,trorr lithe street Jirovla with rm! f!a.-4;3 trs ii while arrtyed in rob-t ct Hveilet. IT W'Tlie air is tr&jrant,id4 aact o " ..ica ti.ej pi 5ad? raeoii: T s.ULz.c f li. ttz dezi recs otthia rret rer : 3, r:: s in ctHrityi Do notTorget,! pray you that oar foreign rej latiooa are ra tnoet cr U ical - coaditiou. ' A blandear ay a ba prove (ti al to your Ad- ministration, but it may light a torch to set the world on fire. - Though I am personally tnendly to xvir Aiaximiuan and his schemes, still I am folly advised of the emharassmenis he has caused to yourself and Cabinet. Re member it is the last hair that breaks thei camel's back; Will not my arrest cause a sensation at St. James, St. Cloud and St. Petersburg indefd. throughout all Europe ? Will not the. sublime Porte be aroused ? And will not those great powers, who eo anxious ly await a pretext to interefere in behalf of Maximilian, be hrged to extreme measures when informed that his chief American ally is under arrest ? I will no further enlarge upon the danger; a wise statesmanship alone can saye your Administration, and, what is of the first import nee to every office-holder, secure your re-election. I suggest this expedient as the best ; Brownlow has any number of Courts in I ennessee. , li is ludges although our Con stitution requires that they be elected by the people) have leen appointed by himself. They are true as steel to you and your glorious Ad ministration. Their jurisdiction is coextensive with tEeir own wishes and Brownlow's necessities. They are all sworn to execute his pious will. Besides, you have Federal Courts in full operation all over Tennessee. Courts are ragularly held at Memphis, Nash ville and K box v i lie for the Judicial Districts which embrace the State, in each of which District Attorneys, who are good Alnjlitionists, reside. The Judge. Hon. C. F. Trigg, is your friend, and was appointed upon your and Brownlow's urgent recommendation. He vo ted for vou. I never belonged to "the land or naval service," and I suggest, with great diffi dence, it is true, that, by transferring me to some one of these many tribunals lor a "speedy trial,", the. sensibilities of the legal profession will not be shocked beyond recovery, rail- ing in this, am I asking too much .vhen I avow myself witling to swallow a dose or that universal panacea for all doubtful cases, the filuitary Commission at Washington r Loubt-less it has jurisdiction of my case, as I am ac cused of conspiracy. I know it is competent to inflict that punishment which many of your old rebel friends say I deserve hanging as it has recently hung a woman. Don't fail to write soon. Direct your private letters to Pa-ducah, Kentucky. May our Heavenly Father speedily restore your Excellency's health", enlarge your already powerful judgment ami understanding, save you from being again poisoned, as on the '-'4th of March last, and finally crown you in Heaven with "the old. man Brown" and" all the mighty hosts who await you there. . Your Excellency will again accept renewed assurances of the high consideration in which you are ever held by ... Your very humble servant, ' : Sincere admirer and affect iorfSte friend, . - ' ' '--- Ercasoy . ETitRirxjE. - Great Destitution in Geor&ria. The World's Columbus, Ga., correspondent of the 4th says that the "scarcity of provisions in that region has been such' "th at t he : peopl e have planted plenty of corn, f A good deal has been put into the ground since the cessation of uoeuiiivies. in una outie, as in oiutr couiu-ern States that I have' passed l hrOugh,'y there will be a- sufficiency oc icorn for the- people themselves, but there is now a real scarcity The price of provisions in the market are evi dences of the fact. Poor flour, is worth three dollars per cwt. in coin. . Board, at the hotels is four dollars per day. The beet families are living on corn bread, bacon and buttermilk7, with an occasional chicken. There are vast numbers of poor widows and helpless people that must exist somehow, but nobody can tell how. . The poverty of the people is exemplified in language, appearance and habits. Persons who have evidently, "been; raised in affluence deny themselves some, of the cheap luxu ries of the season, such as' summer fruits and a few rations which have found their way from the North, and they all dress plain. . There are plenty of women whose external furnishing is sadly out of taste and repair. .' In traveling on the railroads a great many get iu to the cars without a cent to pay their Tatr, trusting to the generosity of the road for a ride. Sometineswhole'fAmlatart off with little or no provisions." Kating-hooses are few, and these charge a dollar for an eiitry to the table when a scramble ensues for . the edibles. Di rect appeals for . money are of oomnaowoccurrence.-' ". ,' ;' "' -. ; The State of Georgia, like South Carolina, is a good deal crippled by raiders through her territory: Not iesa than three hundred miles of railroads have been, torn upvwithin her borders since the fall of Atlanta. . The count ay from Cb attaaoego to Atlanta ' is seamed, and furrowed with entrenchments, its : bridges destroyed, and fences along the .line of the most of the railroads; depots are gone at every town. Large amounts of cotton and otlrer stores were burned. '.: Tjie loss to the Sute 1 n devastations cannot be. less than a hundred mTllibns of dollatsV 'A ii Colorri bi tVree large cotton factories ' were burned down,"? besides fifVyfbticithobsaad -bales of cotton, apd.nearly - ' rw . A rmiUioa. putteisr..oi.com.,4ue ravages .01 Wilson were "much greater tied,bc, con-slJerinVtne state of the 'war.'" The destructioh ieretwlAfoaf 'data After the surrender oCLee; -bat he kAtw hcahing of 4ber egotutUoo wtth Shermftn unMl;near.Jd4Ujon, w, bin -ie waa met y,a nag,ottruce wnicu ttorina.eiy swppei Wie destruxaiop.; Beiweeu' West"-oiiit aird MOnrgob ery'the RaliafHpanyixii 'one engiie and twrf flaVcars; aadscharge tear cents per myf,eXuains to take sabackseJtcept-at fifty cents on the dollar. - ; ..v, : i .- .; -. x 'i The neffr'auestibh is Sfllf tnealT a"b8orWrtg one. and furnisruisluT'bnTy occupallon for the military" Wverm.4Thw Aegtoei remain at work 5 Jftotheir !wteeSvrbuto 5tite cities and 40WWB J4ereare 'great nil inbers of. idleA Many. ofrtue males nate raw w anfew.vueir , mmj-lieA to oe caredfor by, th.eir owners Tlie ques tion of hirtrig them ts atatlnjf and slowfyet-. tling-iteelf.The tohabftahts cowrprain bitterly. hat those who were so eage;to- aire the nigger his liberty-will notow give him his food n in -ZVotlnr?. . - r iTne enemies of equal rhrh Is, "and repudiafora I olheir Xoriest dehts; as well as of the: Declar-f ratloaxif lodependeacav Te xembty iexaroaad lestaotne heseacea ar ;n.ot aa whiter fMose jkair; is. too) aa ,straight.,and ...w hose . ears, , ate snorter iu an vneirs,-inay gei w(e.r'As oog as a few of the leaders or their party tsa id rue tire country jtwaa alt, right but when-lat of tue v.eciaraiiou comes tnpv caxrieq vui wuicji claims that goy eruments are instituted amosg meof dei-lvmir thejf jast'fcowera'froYti- the Wa- kr'peace.'- And. t!iua t-5 black mart will besuperior- to rebels and traitors, lea J era of tha torus DeMOcraey'----;-.- $..x-$&, . "6 8couWlh.TnXrVaia of lin candidate, or Gotertseev ;? Kt sent of lhtf gOTerneQ,' then, they- are iiorriicd. - "i!M f ,?roes; are:; fjoing- torf bo. j X0xny that Is a raanilVt deiuny-rr-an d thesq- Jbraurlers fchciitteir euperiority-Vmav rest their souls ' - - ' . -, , .WVff i Banner. "' : '.' " F A l'fi E . ... . . . '. ' ' Ad thoa art raise, aad yet I braauW, Bat not the breath of konaa life ; - A serpent round my heart is wreathed, . - That stings my very thought to strife. - " - - v ,-r ;'. JiYOOS. Within sty heart an iaase sits, : ' Neble aad good, as th didst aeeea ; Before my gaze a demon flits; - ' Tis thou I Wakened from any dream.-That image par within my breast .: - 1 what I fondly deemed thou wert,-And thou the fiend that haunts my rest,-. All stained anl perjured as thou art. -And yet I loved thee, oh, so" well ! - God knows the" deep intensity And power of that ewoet fatal spoil ' That bound my trusting soul to thee. Heaven was forgot before the shrino . "WasTO, in mjjblind idolatry,-I thought that thou wert only mine, V And. madly worshipped only the. Yes, thou art false ! cold, orucl tones'.;.. Have fallen sadly on my ear, -. .-An i called forth hope's last wailing groan, And laid her, doad, upon her bier; .-And soon most lay thi3 aching heart, - A palseloss lamp, with kindred elavj E'en now her chords begin to start, . And snap the vital strings away. I ask not that thou weep above The turf that wraps my lonely heal ; Thou, mightst, with thy sustaining love, Ilave saved me from the silent dead. Ihen drop no base deceptious tcar,-2Tor heave one sigh of feigned distreas, When thou shall stand beside the bier ; ; Of one thou eouldst, but wouldst aot bloss. - I aak no plaea within thy mind. Nor weakly rhyme forget me n ot My latest, strongest wUh I find, . That I may bojjy thee forgot. r " Bury each word and look of miue Deep in'a dark oblivious grave,-As from my soul all that was thino : I'll wash in Lethe's fabled wave. ' -' MAR AH. BaowxsviLLR, Ohio, July 20, 1S65. Another Letter from Soldiers to General Cox -on the Subject of Kegro Suffrage. The following"Tran8cript of a letter sent to General Cox has been sent us for publication. General Cox has not yet found it convenient to reply to it : " .' '--'.".' GacEasvii.LE, O., July 15th 1865. : Dkar Sia : We do not write to you as party men, : but as citizen-soldiers who have re turned from the field to resume the duties of civil life. We entered the war to put down the rebellion, and thereby preserve the Union ; but we cared nothing for the nigger ' then, nor do we now. If slavery wtrrit under we did not 1 case, and u not U waaall theeame to us, pro- f viUed we saved the Union." .We did not want to see the Union1 broken up,5 norjdo we" now wanf to be placed ori'a level with 'negroes', aa a reward for our service'.". As yoa are a soldier. General, we have a right, to look, to you to de fend our rights, and. u you wilt stand, by the boys, they will stand by you ; but if you go to placing us upon an equality with negroes, then we'll all go against you. . The boys didn't like the idea of negro soldiers, for we were able to whip the rebels ourselves ; and, although the negroes wore the tiniform, you know, Genera', that the white soldiers did the fighting. We stood that because we could wot. help it; but now that we are citizens we will rote our sentiments, and never will we consent to march up to the polls alongside of niggers. You know that General SbermaAwas always opposed to nigger troops, and hns now opposed to nigger voters, and we can't go them. We want you to answer these Questions, for when it comes to voting we are all commanding officers ; if you answer fight we will vote for you ; but if yoa are for the negroes we are not- lor vou : . 1st. Are you in favor of Negro Suffrage f - ;' 3d. Do you agree With General Sherman that Southern negroes should ot be allowed to vote I -; ....'' .. - - 3l. Do you approve of General Sherman's proposed terms for the surrender of Johnston? 4th. Are you in favorof President Johnson's plan of reconstrucuon 7 , . .. - ' . - ,-. ; Very respectfully, . .- ' '-- WILLIAM II. DRINCAN.Co. fi9th 0. V. I. EP11RA1M BARKER, Co.Ti, SOth O. V. T. "' DAVID BLUBAUGTT,Co. K, 3d 0.. V. I. VINCENT WA,rtiO. C.5' v ROBERT HYK&T, Co. 0. 83th O. V. L .; KESRY PEIOULOR, Co. K, d O. V. T. - WILLIAM P. SAPP, Co: K. 4Sd O. V. I M. HEXatr SArP, Co. I, SSA O. V. I. : . . PETER NEFF, Co. E. 20th 0. Y; I. To Geveral J. D. Cox. . .. ; ' ''" ; . Iffegro Suffrage n the South. '" Governor Wellsy Of 'To'uisiana, fn reply to a letter from a Kegro bun rage committee eays: ; - "I cannot, eith er,' Accciir nowe vert anxious to do eo1 1 might be,: your conduwion tliat'the endowment of the ' Negro with the franchise would strengthen t he-Union cause or the "Na tional Govern me nt. 7 1 ' . i.vv; 4 -- ' dissent ia toto irom that conclusion, '-r On the contrary, I am fully , persuaded, frornmy knowledire'of the." Negro . character.' that nine out off ten of the late : entire alave population would support their ibrinei masters', -personal ly Vt-pohUcallyi-wr any way; ia, preference. to all strangers-and I regard aU. as strangers io this connection who did not stand in ihia do mestic relation toward hem. - Nay,-.mdreI believe tn my heart that within twel ve months from the timethe Nejrtrwould obtain the suf frage," neither h n fal terin'Sou thern Un ion man. nor the Union man whose loyalty dates from hiaobtainmeat of Fetleral office, could live otherwise than ou sufferance ia the States where the privilege was given," if the individuals latelyr irr rebellion were: d eposed to coohte-ahce such ncdia'i;ff- The Htxsh Treatment M)f. HrJ)aTi Index saysc. We havfiWn informed that Jeff. Javia hiHM aererat requests Jo bs relieved t .the tserpetuaJ tra'ui p";ortMe sentibels'uuaiid Joan hia roomi' hut on 1 (hia Trmint nn' laj lion could-' ti g'raatedand t e is earTering from the aeeycxaPexcttement and rrsrJUag proatra-lioo,wH?h tfcese ljeTpetuat OottaHs indace. -' XhiSJalheTesaonorhis. failing sight, his eyes having suffered for manyl years- from: a"diso'rr der, which is eaUjin creased.,- bjxmy jnery-ou s, trpi t?.? vn-ki- i " uS. i ; .-. .. -; ' ' t" ' 111- s r - ' "&tC7Oa 1 TLuriJay "ja Insane man.'truvmed rtockl?, -aj rfcscbcX at gtoup f passengers 3 holtd a Eteaoier!: the Aliasissippt Biver, imddeULerateJyj shot frr men, .one, of them jatallv, the other slightly. 'Ife waa finally diaj armed, secured, and takento St. Taul for ex-amiaatioa.: -' :' Beoel Reasoni for their Surrender A , . Speech from Gov, Perry of S. C-. Hon.: Benj. Y. Terry, recently appointed provisional Governor of South parol ina,- ad-dressed his fellow citizens at Greenville, S. C. , on the 3rd i net , in which he made the. following statement with reference to his position be- . fore and since the rebellion, and in which he gives his views of the causes which led to the y termination of the war: Mr. Chairman, I will here frankly say, as I have often said during the last four years, that there was i ot a man in the UuiteJ Slates who more deeply regretted the seeesssion of the Southern States than I did at the begiuniug of . the revolution ; and there is not now in the Soilhern Stales any one who feels more bitterly the humiliation and degredation of going back into the Union than I do. Still, I know that we shall be more prosperous and happy in the Union than out ol it. It has been too common, Jfr. Cliairman, to " attribute the failure of this great revolution to ? the President of the late Confederacy. This, : bit. is a mistake. The peopl e were the mselvea to blame for its failure. They were unwilling .-to make tho&e sacrifices which were essential to its success.; Many who were most prominent in the movement never -did auything for it after the war commenced. Instead of seek--ing their proper position, in front of the battle, they sought bomb-proofi" for iheinsel ves and their sons. There were others, who got " into " soft places; and official . positions." J . where tbey could speculate and make fortunes on Government fundi. , -. . . In fact toward the latter part oflhe war, Jt seemed that every one was trying to keep out of the army, and was wiHingto pay anything,; and make any sacrifice to do so. When Gen. Johnston surrendered his army he had ou his . ; muster roll 70,000 men, but only 14,000 to he :"' carried into battle ! Gen." Lee's army was -in lhe same condidition. Where were he absen tees? At home on furlough, staving over- over their furloughs, descrtetl and .straggling I At no lima during the last, throe vears of the war was there.more than one-third of the army ready to march into battle i How was it possible for the Southern people to succeed. acting thus ? . - . - - Congress, too, Mr. Chairman, is greatly to blame for their exemptions. All letween-lhe ages of 18 and 45 should have been forced into the army and kept there. It mattered t not whether he was a lawyer, doctor,, politician, preacher, editor or school-teacher, if an able ; bodied man, he should liavc been sent to the army. : cut, strange to say, the tnree classes . Of mevi who were mainly instrumental in plun-i ging their country into, this oiad revolution, .; were all exempted-by Congrees irom hghting. I allude to the polticians, newspaper editors and Preachers ot the Gospel. This was not fair.' The man who gets up a, fight should al-.:-ways take his share ofJt. r ; : - r r . . . . ' . 1 mn . '':-, . A First Kate Notice. - . . , The Hartford JTimts. has the following first! .' rate notice of a third-rate Abolition demagogue - , '. - , t -'; : - ., , ' Senator Wilson,-wlo is about as'poor a specimen of a statesman aa could be prod uced in . Massachusetts, fid - putting on some - peacock t . airs be forel colored audiences. II address'el . a negro meeting at Washington the other day,; ; and aid he wanted Southern Hle to understand" a number Of things ;and he'ferved mo-. tice" on them that on the first day of the. next Congress he should iatroiuce a mil for-the "personal liberty of every freeman of this continents" Ths Southerners will . not probably-complain of any such bill, and a good ..many while men at the Norths who have been deprived of their liberty without due process of law, would hail such a bill with joy ; and there are Mexicans, Peruvians and Haytiens, who may feel an interest in it. Wilson said he belonged to a set of men who sleep on the field of victory, and who cannot be -defeated. It is said . that Wilson went down to see the first Bull Run battle, and that when they began-to fire and charge furiously, his coat tail stuck out at right angles, and bis hair did not lay very smoothly upon his brow. lie had no notion of " sleeping on the field of victory,' whichever way the battle might turn.- 'Wilson declar-? ed that there was " nothing more sublime than the record of the black man in this struggle." and he insisted that they should be " an orna--meht and a blessing to lhe country' He closed by declaring that toe touching words were ringing in his ears that in the fature the llack man would "keep the jewel of liberty in-the family of freedom." That lellow ought never --to associate with white men 'f aod we should think the colored men would Ue slow to own him. ' J; -V- '-'. '"": : "-'; : A Soutaern . 'Character.' " i' ' , A writer in the New Orleans Picayune, writes ; as follows of.a preacher be saw in U per Georr-gia: ""After throwing his eye around the house ., in a1 threatening manner, with Oh, you. mis-T erable sinners' expressed "itrevery :liaament-of his round face, lie went on in aerious voice: ' "My brethren," in order to check all -idle curi-;!. 8ity, I, will slate that .my; name, is .Elijah.:, Brownser, from : Jessymine .county," Kir tuck, : sniffle, - arid I'm free to confess n rthont feat.-of ewcoessTaT contradfctroa, and I'm. here to-. day to say, and it. will at once occur to every ' " intelligent and reflecting. mind, when I make ," bold. to tell' Jou that I jkae,"been ..preaching';, now purty nigV gwine on three years, and on au averageof five, handrei sermons a year;; ? that I have pwaxhed to'-ihe sojer8,iQ thein--jans, to the orlns, sniffla. la the niggers and-'-to the woodchoppers of S paid in county;but-never; nor never, no never, blnbbei, -4ias T seed 4n all that, timer' so illmanered, so sinful and - depraved and .devilhiiggiag a ' congrfi-tion as this one htre- setlirr before- fneto-tlayff-and I want to tell the young men' asd- women'. " S sett in hsek-ther- again" th e- mloju"i t ' . it r comes" h'ere'a conrtnn and a flirtia and a :ri v of notes round the me'ouo,xand lafun and. ; a gigglin, and a flying n the face or -ProvT- dence, that thwMaws of the State thfows around . me certain protection, "and 1 ant goin to have ; it. ; And I What's, more i tthe thing aint stop-. ; pedl'afii goin for I've got their name to eaU, out their names from the pulpU next Sunday.-and presentem to the gram! jury moreover ? - Corrj' Side-show ! ;;;; -BilV Corry's little side-show will sxhliit at,". Columbus on the 17th of AugueU , Ou.that day its eaanagera -propose to go through the farce of giving , birth t in ;Qbio 4o a new and" purer .Democratic party," one that willsuit the whims and views of all the crazy Bills, ia the . State lrtThs holehow is under the super t tendence of the Cox Union State Central Com-' mittee. -'All expenses paid r by ed-lrc:,: that l&jyPUiM,-J)ealeTS : ; V rfie'people are nder. Ulgtion to t'.a Ab- , o'.itiori members of the kegiiturtt tor tie ea- ; actment Of the law- that requires fro:a them , the-paymnt of $4 a year a;a,t3iliya..tax. The Aboliuonista voted forrthe bill and ths Democrats voted against it. This is 'anctlitr reason, why poor ; men should vote for il Oberlin State Ticket is it not. Sutesm : r' .-- f